Notify the relevant authority immediately if you know or suspect that an animal or carcass on the farm is infected with: foot and mouth disease; bluetongue; rinderpest; peste des petits ruminants; swine vesicular disease; epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease of deer; sheep and goat pox; vesicular stomatitis; African swine fever; lumpy skin disease; Rift Valley fever

Minimise the transmission of livestock diseases

Prevention of pain, injury and disease to livestock

Livestock are free from pain, injury or disease

Reduce deleterious impacts on livestock

Maintain / improve livestock productivity

Increase farm income

Economic viability

Reduce deleterious impacts on livestock

Maintain / improve livestock productivity

Increase farm income

Economic viability

Reduce incidence of zoonotic diseases in animals which might pose a hazard to human health

Reduce endemic diseases in animals

Improved control and eradication of animal diseases